Good News from the Kitchen November 22, 2011

She is TV health guru Gillian McKeith, advocating a holistic approach to nutrition and health, promoting exercise, a vegetarian diet high in organic fruits and vegetables.
She recommends detox diets, colonic irrigation and supplements.

… McKeith is a menace to the public understanding of science. She seems to misunderstand not nuances, but the most basic aspects of biology – things that a 14-year-old could put her straight on.

She talks endlessly about chlorophyll, for example: how it’s “high in oxygen” and will “oxygenate your blood” – but chlorophyll will only make oxygen in the presence of light. It’s dark in your intestines, and even if you stuck a searchlight up your bum to prove a point, you probably wouldn’t absorb much oxygen in there, because you don’t have gills in your gut. In fact, neither do fish. In fact, forgive me, but I don’t think you really want oxygen up there, because methane fart gas mixed with oxygen is a potentially explosive combination.

Thank you! I’m 50, and people don’t believe me. I eat and cook with butter and everything nice and tasty, and I have very few wrinkles on my face. Even though that doesn’t make it a pretty face…..I have a good personality, I’m told.

I love butter ‘n bacon. I save organic fats. Being vegetarian is just plain wrong. We are meant to eat meat. As long as we appreciate the animals I think we are OK.
Funny reading some of the posts. Everyone used to guess me younger than I was until I hit over 50! Ughhh….my shallow vanity betrays me! I still look in the mirror and think I’m hot but then I look at a pic and I’m old : ( I must now find a way to embrace my age. Might let my hair go grey and become the crazy cat lady!

Yes but the picture of Nigella is corrected and brushed and she s got tons of make up and a private hairdresser and a stylist for the occasion. Not defending the other woman who seems slightly extreme. But let’s be honest Nigella probably has blocked arteries or doesn’t cook like she preaches!

Well, to borrow a quote from one of the classiest Presidents this country has ever been lucky enough to have as a leader,

“Yannow, you can … uhh… put lipstick on your lips….ummm… I mean.. a pig with lipstick is….uhhhh hold on a minute.,..hold on a minute …uuuhhh….. you’re getting me ….ummmm…. you can take lipstick to a pig and … uhhh…. put it on the pig , and that’s all well and good…. uuummmm…. yannow…if you want a pig uhhh umm a pig with lipstick…. but that’s not ummm yannow… uhh not what I think we should do…. uuuhh…. yannow… uhhh for America!”

I have to comment- as I always do when I see this shared. McKeith got into macrobiotic eating because she has severe, lifelong health issues and a form of scoliosis that is crushing her organs, and is basically killing her. She looks like this because she would otherwise be dead. And, of course, this is an awful picture. I appreciate the whole “enjoy food” idea, and Nigella is stunning, but I find this one viral comparison unfair. Sincerely, The Mom of a Girl with Scoliosis who has seen this woman make a difference.🙂

Do you suppose this is true? I have a friend that I call “The Baroness”. She is absolutely gorgeous and her favorite food? Butter! Butter in everything!!! And, she, too, drinks red wine! Wowee Zowee! Jackie Silver, AgingBackwards.com guru looks years younger, too, and tells herself and visualizes herself as impervious. Maybe we need those fats, butters and protein…